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From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: RE: Russia on the Net
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Date: Mon, 9-Apr-84 11:35:56 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  9 11:35:56 1984
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<This will no longer be needed when the state withers away....>

				...and just how secure WOULD you
	feel if the KGB could not only read your postings (some of
	which are quite revealing at times) but maybe get into your
	system? There ARE security holes, you know...

	"That's the biz, sweetheart..."
	          Dave Fiedler
	{harpo,astrovax,philabs}!infopro!dave
	P.S. You also might consider that the NSA and CIA have access
	to the net.

You really think that NSA and CIA can read USENET but KGB can't?
It would only take one tapped phone line somewhere on four continents....
-- 
John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas
jsq@ut-sally.ARPA, jsq@ut-sally.UUCP, {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!jsq